Cinema Quotes · Page 282

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

— Jackie Chan

Professionally, I haven't done any film in 2013 as I was studying in NYU.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

— Donald Pleasence

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

— Ritika Singh

I don't know how to make award-winning films; I'm a director happy in making masala films.

— Raghava Lawrence

I love movies, but I never expected to be 'in the movies.'

— Stephen Schwartz

When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

— Paul Wesley

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to…

— Khalil Mack

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the…

— Matthew Vaughn

I've been very, very busy with my commitment to my constituency and to Parliament. So, I don't really have time to work…

— Kirron Kher

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease…

— Ava DuVernay

I always ask, 'Is this movie essential? Does this movie need to exist? Does it need to exist right now?' And the…

— Allison Williams

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get…

— Stephen Mangan

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing…

— John C. Reilly

I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many…

— Sergio Leone

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make…

— Alexandra Cassavetes

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a…

— Dave McKean

A lot of people started asking me about this woman director thing, which I never thought about before. And I'd never really…

— Sophia Takal

Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a…

— Dane Cook

I started as a short filmmaker and found that one of the toughest challenges was getting your film to be watched. I…

— Karthik Subbaraj

I think that Tyler Perry's genius really has been to tap into the domestic market. He knows what his audience is based…

— Hilton Als

The first movie I was when I was around 16 or 17. It was a hard-core drama, artistic movie. I had never…

— Shira Haas

I love singing for films because there is a story to the song; it takes you down a new road.

— Mohit Chauhan

It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.

— Ali

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

— Akshay Kumar

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

— Joseph Fiennes

I like scary movies. I like the mystery that leaves you wanting to watch the next one.

— Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

— Mads Mikkelsen

I know that there is life beyond films. I know the difference between reel and real.

— Mahima Chaudhry

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

— Eric Stoltz

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

— Harold Prince

In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.

— Gulzar

I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

— Jack Whitehall

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

— Mike Leigh

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

— Elisha Cuthbert

Movies are not about a person; they're about a relationship. All of them are about a relationship.

— Christopher Miller

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

— Mahima Chaudhry